Former Fox News host Bill O'Reilly got into a heated debate with PBS News host Margaret Hoover about the sexual harassment allegations made against him in an interview on Friday.
Huber pursued O'Reilly over his $32 million settlement with women who accused him of sexual harassment, ultimately forcing him to leave Fox News in April 2017. O'Reilly also blasted the “Firing Line with Margaret Hoover” host as a “virtue preacher” over a 2017 New York Times op-ed praising Fox News for firing hosts.
“You don't know anything,” O'Reilly told Hoover, “so write what you want to write. It's similar to the people you've mentioned in the past… You were on my show for four years and had no issues. That's what you know about me. You don't know anything else about me. So write what you want to write.”
Huber was the 2017 Editorial In an article titled “Bill O'Reilly's Sexual Harassment Is 'Unconservative',” the article accused O'Reilly of “embracing the victim mentality that has made a mockery of the American Left” after his firing and of shifting the blame for his resignation onto others. Appeared He was a regular guest on “The O'Reilly Factor” from 2007 to 2011.
“Mr. O'Reilly also Former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes“Instead, O'Reilly blamed others and embraced a victim mentality that mocked the American left, arguing that his resignation was not his fault but the cost of doing business as a prominent media personality,” the editorial said.
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O'Reilly accused Huber of opposing “due process” in his firing. Denied All of the sexual assault allegations made against him. (Related article: Bill O'Reilly accuses Fox News of glee at decision)
“Wait, no, no, no, wait. You're here for this show and I'm asking you questions and you're answering them,” Huber countered. “This is due process.”
“No, no. You read the damning essay you wrote,” O'Reilly said. “You wrote it knowing nothing. You knew nothing. Nothing. And yet you wrote it and you presented it to me. I knew you would do this, OK? I'm not afraid. But I will say this: due process is very important in this country. So next time, don't write some flame-flaming essay if you don't know what you're talking about. You know nothing about me other than the four years you were in my program, which was fine by you.”
The former Fox News host reportedly abruptly ended the interview after Huber's question. According to Huber told the media site that he grew increasingly annoyed as O'Reilly questioned him about the incident.
O'Reilly has agreed to five settlements over the allegations, and advertisers have boycotted his show and called for him to be fired, The New York Times reported. Fired He made the statement after reviewing a damning investigation in which multiple women accused him of inappropriate behavior.
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